LGBT Rights in Chile

Homosexuality
⚢
✔ Legal
Marriage
⚭
✔ Civil unions
Changing Gender
✔ Legal, but requires surgery
Adoption
✖ Single only
Discrimination
✔ Illegal
Housing Discrimination
✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
Employment Discrimination
✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
Military
Ambiguous
Age of Consent
✖ Unequal
Donating Blood
✔ Legal
Conversion Therapy
✖ Not banned

Public Opinion

"Should Society Accept Homosexuality?"

Chile ranks #11 out of 39 countries surveyed. (Source: Pew Research Center, June 4, 2013)

(24%) No

Yes (68%)

History

Homosexual activity in Chile

Current status
(since Dec 23, 1998)

Legal

Homosexual activity is legal in Chile.

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Same-sex marriage in Chile

Current status
(since Oct 22, 2015)

Civil unions

Since 2015, same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples have the same legal protections available to opposite-sex married couples, within a civil union - except for adoption rights and the title of marriage.

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Oct 22, 2015–Sep 9, 2018

Civil unions

Legalization Pending. it is in the same bill that is legalizing gay adoption.

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Until Oct 22, 2015

Unrecognized

A bill legalizing Civil Unions in Chile was passed on April 21, 2015 and will go into effect on October 22, 2015.

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Right to change legal gender in Chile

Jan 1, 2017–Sep 20, 2018

Legal, surgery not required

Since Oct 2017. Choice of sex change up to the individual. Missing non binary options on documents.

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Current status

Legal, but requires surgery

Change of name and gender legal since 2007.

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Same-sex adoption in Chile

Jan 1, 2017–Sep 22, 2018

Single only

Legalization pending.

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Current status

Single only

Chilean law stipulates that single gays are allowed to adopt, but gay couples may not.

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LGBT discrimination in Chile

Current status
(since Jul 12, 2012)

Illegal

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LGBT housing discrimination in Chile

Current status
(since Jul 12, 2012)

Sexual orientation and gender identity

The anti-discrimnation law penalizes the arbitrary discrimination and includes protection for discrimination of sexual orientation and gender identity

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LGBT employment discrimination in Chile

Current status
(since Jul 12, 2012)

Sexual orientation and gender identity

The anti-discrimination law penalizes the arbitrary discrimination and includes protection for discrimination of sexual orientation and gender identity

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Homosexuals serving openly in military in Chile

Jan 1, 2012–Mar 2, 2018

Legal

No restrictions.

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Current status

Ambiguous

No official prohibition, but LGBT people may be discharged because of "offenses to values and morals of the Armed Forces".

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Equal age of consent in Chile

Sep 28, 2016–Sep 11, 2018

Equal

Equal Age of Consent Bill is going to come into effect in the next couple years.

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Current status
(since Sep 8, 2014)

Unequal

Age of consent for same sex is 18, for different sex is 14.

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Until Sep 8, 2014

Unequal

Article 365 of the Penal Code establishes 18 as age if consent for gay couples, whereas 14 is the standard age if consent for straight couples.

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Blood donations by MSMs in Chile

Current status
(since Apr 24, 2013)

Legal

The Chilean Health Ministry repeals the blood ban after a year of lobbying by the country's leading LGBT organization, Chilean Homosexual Integration and Liberation Movement (MOVILH).

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